Budweiser Select
American-style lager that is long brewed for a crisp taste that finishes clean. It contains only 99 calories, 3.1 grams of carbohydrates and 4.3 percent alcohol by volume per 12 oz. serving.
1.4
835 reviews
St. Louis, United States
Community reviews
355ml embossed twist off from the bottle. Flavor is entirely light and inoffensive. A touch of soapy bitterness and tap water aftertaste. 1.25 at bar louie and not woth it.
Bottle, in US. Backlog entry. Entering my historic scores for US beers whilst visiting New York. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
On tap. Pours a straw yellow color. About two fingers offwhite head. No lacing, but better than expected retention.
Aroma is cardboard, corn, rice and more rice.
Taste is same. Cardboard and rice. Watery. Not ’bad’ just not flavorful.
Mouthfeel is light, carbonated. Not smooth. Worsens as it warms.
Overall, not bad. Good for what it is. Would not order again. Similar to Michelob Ultra, but Ultra is much better.
Now this is a tasty beverage! Brings back fond memories of my community college days as I stumbled into a 9 am online class 14 minutes late with my pants half down and the taste of my best friends future ex wife still lingering in my mouth - those were the days.....
From a 25floz can (02.22.2017 canned date) bought for $2, and poured into a glass. I consider this a very good light beer. It is clean, crisp, and due to the overall lack of flavor it also lacks off flavors. Not much to look at as it is pale and what head there is quickly subsides. Smells like particle board, but so do many pale lagers. Palate is light tasting like liquid kashi (cereal grains and white rice). I have to say, it is my go to when craft selections are lame, situation appropriate, and best in the macro-light lager class. Oh, I’ve had this on tap and bottle. It tastes consistently the same. The Lays potato chips of beer!
12 oz. bottle at Big Fred’s Pizza, Omaha. Pour was clear golden, small white head. Aroma was barley, grains, cereal. Taste was moderate sweet, watery, cereal grains, barley.
This is more akin to Black Crown than to Bud Light or Budweiser. It is, purportedly, all malt and I actually believe that because it has a hint of caramel color. I suspect they get it so ’light’ by brewing a malt bill that would make Bud Light but without all the rice. The taste is more refined and clearly features a more sophisticated hop selection than the yellow Buds. Overall, very drinkable if not a particularly versatile beer.
had to try was free...basically the same as budweiser just less calories...i just do not like budweiser products...yuck!
Backlog. Pretty similar to bud but with less flavor. They tried but still not as much flavor as Bud and that is saying a lot.
Tastes exactly the same as a Budweiser but less calories woohoo. Pretty much just a standard tasting mass produced lager
Originally rated on 6/16/08. I was out at my towns annual summer celebration and my choices were the select, budweiser, bud light, and miller lite. So when faced with two evils always select the one you never tried. First of all i was gouged on the price but it was hotter than hell, oh well. it went down smooth, not much flavor, watery, standard A.B. mass produced beer. With that said it was better than the other choices if only for the alcohol content.
Poured from a 12 OZ bottle into a pint glass. The appearance is a clear light yellow color with a thin white head. The aroma is of sweet grain and corn. The taste is grain with some malt, a little watery. Overall, an average beer.
12 oz twist off bottle someone left behind at a party I had earlier in the summer. 12APR15 born on date. The pour is a clear pale golden with a quickly falling white head. The aroma is sweet malt, some honey, all pretty faint. As the beer warmed, some grain. The taste is generically sweet tasting malt, clean through to the finish. The palate is light to thin bodied with soft carbonation, which was softer and easier to drink than Bud Light or Bud. The aftertaste is bit dirty sweet after it warmed.
A darker version of Budweiser, but doesn’t taste much better. This just goes into the pile of other Budweiser products I didn’t care for.
A mass produced light lager with perhaps a dash more of some dark crystal malt to make it "different" than the others?
Crappy beer available at the golf course. Pretty much has no color flavor or aroma. Slightly grainy aftertaste. Really not much there.
This is a watered down version of bud, sort of reminds me of Michelob Ultra or Bud Light. I actually like this a bit better than regular bud because the taste isn’t as strong so somewhat less skunky. The aroma is still semi-skunky, and the appearance is very thin and weak. Looks like pee, a very pale golden-yellow. The flavor is very minimal, mostly water and grain. Not the worst cheap lawnmower beer around.
Look: straw color. Very clear. White head.
Smell: slight flower smell: bready.
Taste: flowers. Biscuit.
Feel: light beer. Medium carbonation.
Overall: refreshing beer. Easy drinker.
First drank: mom & dads 2/8/15
Vintage: oct 21, 2013
Some St. Louis Cardnials fans told me that this is the best beer in America. They also said St. Louis is the best city in America. Smells ok. Like cheap beer. It’s clear and bright yellow. I like that. Seems like it would take some technology to get beer to look so clean. Tastes weird, like bubbles from untreated sewage water. Very light and watery and very carbonated and a weird aftertaste that goes from sour to bitter. This is a terrible, terrible beer. Undrinkable.
"distinct and flavorful" my a@#. is there a real difference between this and bud??? not much, as they are both light american ca-ca. not worth trying again."
Julie never had this beer but if she did she was very much hate this it taste like horrible horrible water down this beer
Selected by whom? Pale straw, large white head. Unbalanced malt, no hops or bitterness. A pointless beer.
Draft @ Busch Stadium, St Louis, MO. Pours a clear pale yellow color with a small white head. Had a fruity grainy weak cardboard aroma. Fruity grainy slightly thin watery smooth flavor. Has a fruity grainy watery finish.
Reviewed from notes and had more than enough times to say something about it. It looks like I’ve had this in a pint glass and a pilsener however, there’s nothing that indicates any difference in either glass.
The appearance was almost hazy golden yellow color with a decent transparency to it. Carbonated bubbles rise at a rapid pace.
The smell actually had just a tad more to it than the 55 - perhaps some roasted sweet corn.
The taste was mainly sweet and crisp leading with a clean finish.
The palate sits about a light to medium as it wants to show some backbone but maintains a certain lightness to it. The carbonation is actually crisp and settling, once again its trying to display some sort of actual body to it but doesn’t.
Overall, personally, I think this probably the best stab on the market for a low calorie beer. However, would I have it again? Only if I need to lose weight and I don’t need to lose weight so....I’ll leave it at that. I could actually live with this if I ever got diabetes.
There is not much to say or taste here. It pours very light yellow. The body is very clean and clear with lively carbonation that forms a thick white head. The aroma is light, mostly of rice and hay. There is not a bit of hops anywhere. The flavor is also very light. Mostly of rice, paper and hay, that leads you to a crisp clean finish. Overall its low carbohydrate, low calories and low on flavor.
It does have a clean finish, but I think that’s because there’s just not much in terms of a flavor profile here.
Bottle pour typical light yellow. Nose faint sweet malt, minimal adjunct. Taste very minimal malt up front, Mid palate mineral and off flavors. No finish. Why did I drink this?
Filthy American piss. I can’t believe people actually buy this shite, typical example of corporations trying to reinvent themselves with more of the same rubbish with more expensive marketing. Get stuffed sepo hogwash.
Bottle: Another one that gets tossed around at family picnics & parties quite often. Let’s be honest, it’s the same as all the rest... Grainy with an unpleasant adjunct-driven sweetness, stale hops, & big metallic notes. Sharp, over-carbonated & quite thin. Not the worst thing on the planet, but there really isn’t any reason for you to drink this. Water would be a better choice... Why waste the calories (even if only 99) ?
Gross, now that I've had better. I repent that I've had this beer and I really wish I didn't have to put 75 words or more in the comments.